ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2018
Cardiac vagal regulation in infancy predicts executive function and social competence in preschool: Indirect effects through language.
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- The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development.Infant behavior & development · 2023Article
- Expressive language in infancy and toddlerhood: The roles of child temperament and maternal parenting behaviors.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- Vocabulary and Executive Functioning: A Scoping Review of the Unidirectional and Bidirectional Associations across Early Childhood.Human development · 2022Article
- Context is key: Parasympathetic regulation in the classroom differentially predicts preschoolers' socially competent behaviors.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- Child Maltreatment Severity and Sleep Variability Predict Mother-Infant RSA Coregulation.Development and psychopathology · 2021Article
- Infant physiological activity and the early emergence of social communication.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Heart rate mean and variability as a biomarker for phenotypic variation in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2019Article
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Abstract
Parasympathetic nervous system functioning in infancy may serve a foundational role in the development of cognitive and socioemotional skills (Calkins, 2007). In this study (N = 297), we investigated the potential indirect effects of cardiac vagal regulation in infancy on children's executive functioning and social competence in preschool via expressive and receptive language in toddlerhood. Vagal regulation was assessed at 10 months during two attention conditions (social, nonsocial) via task-related changes in respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). A path analysis revealed that decreased RSA from baseline in the nonsocial condition and increased RSA in the social condition were related to larger vocabularies in toddlerhood. Additionally, children's vocabulary sizes were positively related to their executive function and social competence in preschool. Indirect effects from vagal regulation in both contexts to both 4-year outcomes were significant, suggesting that early advances in language may represent a mechanism through which biological functioning in infancy impacts social and cognitive functioning in childhood.
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